Infosys Founded: 1981 Revenue: $6.

04 billion Employees: 130,820 Strength Large enterprise focused, like JP Morgan, Bank of America, Microsoft, BT, BP, Goldman Sachs Strong domain capability in enterprise (BFSI, manufacturing, telecom, retail) and ERP services Better positioned in consulting, which it has built over the years and brings in about 20% revenue Better basket of services, with presence in growth verticals Weakness Very small focus on India and emerging markets, the growth engines of today Work Style This is how we do it and its the best way

TCS Founded: 1968 Revenue: $8.2 billion Employees: 198,614 Strength Strong applications, development and maintenance Strengthened BPO post Citibanks back-office buy Global footprint; present in over 50 countries Strong India presence, growing in emerging markets Stable management team. CEO and managing director N Chandrasekaran just 47 years old and in charge since October 2009 Nimbler after a recast in 2008 Weakness In the past few years, Infosys and Wipro have started operations in Latin America, earlier a key differentiator for TCS A workforce of nearly 2 lakh makes it Indias largest private employer by far. Despite its new structure, the head count is a huge challenge Work style Tell us what you want and we will do it

Wipro Technologies Founded: 1980 Revenue: $5.2 billion Employees: 122,385 Strength Infrastructure management and product engineering space ($1 billion revenue). Infocrossing acquisition helped in IM Strong telecom practice Middle East and Asia presence helps to de-couple from poor spending in West High-tech, medical equipment, machinery segments. GE tie-up helped Weakness Going through a management transition and restructuring after its joint CEO model was scrapped in January 2011. No. 3 position under threat from rivals like Cognizant Work style Dont question our processes. These are tested and best in class

HCL Founded: 1991 Revenue: $3.3 billion Employees: 73,420 Strength Consumer electronics, aerospace and defence, where rivals have little or no presence Hardware heritage (it was spun out of parent HCL Infosystems) which helped build strong infrastructure management practice 2008 buyout of Axon helped enter high-end consulting business Weakness The practice of ceding margins for growth can be risky in long term BPO not yet out of the woods Work style Like TCS, tell us what to do and we will deliver

Cognizant

Founded: 1994 Revenue: $4.59 billion (2010) Employees: 104,000 Strength 26% revenues from health care, pharma and life sciences, sectors that are less vulnerable to a slowdown, which helped it ride recession well Large presence in financial services (42%), retail, manufacturing & logistics (18.6%) makes it more diversified A late entrant in the US, almost 77% of revenue from the US, 19.2% from Europe Large consulting team. Raised hiring of MBAs to boost business solutions offering Weakness Revenues from India and emerging markets small (less than 4%) Work style: What we do is the industry best practice